Haslam is for the people

Congratulations to Gov. Bill Haslam for discouraging, at least for now, the effort to take the nomination of U.S. senators out of the hands of the people and place them in the fists of party officials. Such action is anathema to the concept of democratic government.

A New York Democratic state senator paid several well-placed officials to be put on the ballot, as Republicans, for election as mayor of New York City. Even had the scheme not been discovered, at least there are open primaries in New York. Someone could have run against him.

We are fortunate to have Gov. Haslam, an elected official who believes in "of the people, by the people and for the people."

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Haslam is for the people

Congratulations to Gov. Bill Haslam for discouraging, at least for now, the effort to take the nomination of U.S. senators out of the hands of the people and place them in the fists of party